Gate.



GATE.

APPLICATION FILED Dec.22. 1911.

Patented Dec. 31, 1918.

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GATE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 31, 191.8.

Application filed December 22, 1.917. Serial No. 208,406.

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Be 1t known that I, GEORGE A. Ginn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit,

in the county of Vayne and 'State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gates, of which the following is la specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in gates, and is designed especially for use in the rural districts, and upon farm lands, the primary object of the invention being the provision of a gate that is comparatively inexpensive in cost of production, is durable, facile in operation, and not likely to sag, and to this end the invention consists in certain novel features and combinations and arrangements of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated one complete example of the physical embodiment of my invention, constructed and arranged according to the best mode so far devised for the practical application of the principles of my invention.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a complete gate constructed and erected according to my invention.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the gate of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view at line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail view of the gate hanger and connections.

Fig. 5 is a sectional View of the crane.

Fig. 6 is a detail of one of the hinges.

Fig. 7 is a view in elevation of one of the gate posts.

Fig. 8 is a top plan view showing the relation of the crane upright and a gate upright, when the gate is swung to unlatched position and ready to swing open.

In the illustration of my invention in its preferred form I have utilized the usual gate posts as 1 and 2, but instead of the gate being hinged directly to one of the posts, I employ a crane made up of the three members comprising the upper .rail 3, the upright 4 and the angular brace 5, these three pieces being of suitable sized timber and properly secured together to form the triangular crane shown in Fig. l. The crane is hinged, as at 6, 6 to the post 1 and is free to swing in either direction with relation to the post.

The gate is made up of; suitable sized material, is rectangular in form and comprises the usual uprights 7, 8, and 9, and these uprights are connected by the rails 10 that are fixed to thel uprights to form the rigid frame, while special rails l0@ and 10 are utilized, the former as a latch, and the latter as a suspending bar. Thus the latch bar 10a is fixed to the gate, butI has a projecting end that its neatly in the groove or space between the two cleats 2L and 2 nailed to the inner side of the post 2, and adapted to embrace the end of the latch bar 10a.

The suspending bar 10 is also rigid with the gate, but has a projecting end at the end of the gate opposite to the projection of the latch bar, and this suspending bar, at its end, is adapted to fit and move freely through the slots 4a or 4 which extend horizontally through the upright 4 of the crane.

The gate is suspended from the crane by means of a hanger 11, which is a wrought iron bar having its ends 12 and 13 bent at right angles, to form a crank hanger, the upper arm being passed through an opening 3 near the outer end of the crane bar or rail 3, and the lower crank 13 being passed through an opening 8 in the intermediate upright 8 of the gate. By means of cotter pins 14, passed through openings in the crank hanger, the Gate and crane are held in proper relationship, so that the gate may swing slightly, say two inches, for a fourteen foot gate, on the upper arm 12 of the crank hanger in order to unlatch the gate.

In use, assuming the gate to be closed as in Figs. 1 and 2, the gate is rst swung to the left in Fig. 1, by pressure from the hand on the gate, with the result that the latch bar is withdrawn from its keeper slot in post 2, and the guide or suspending bar 10 slides through the slot 4a in the upright 4, and then by pressure on the gate, the crane and gate may be swung in either direction on the hinges 6.

If it is desired to raise the gate to a higher altitude, the lower crank arm 13 of the hanger may be passed through the lower opening or socket 8 in post or upright 8, and the guide or nsuspending bar is then fitted in the socket 4', while the latch bar will fit neatly in the keeper space of post 2 as readily understood.

From the above description taken in connection with my drawings it will readily be apparent that the gate is suspended from the crane at two points, i. e., by the hanger and through the instrumentality of the suspending bar in its socket. The weight of the gate, is of course sustained primarilyby the crank hanger, and inasmuch as the gate is suspended at its center, above the center of gravity, it cannot sag, but is retained in proper position by means of the guide bar 10. `Vhen the gate is swung to unlatched position, the upright 7 of the gate encounters the upright' 4 of the crane, asshown in Fig. 8, to prevent'excessive movement of the gate, and the size of materials and arrangement of parts is made with this result in View.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for What I claim is The combination with a pair of posts, of a hinged crane having an end bar formed with aguide socket, and a crank hanger at its free end, a gate swiveled on the hanger and capable of horizontal unlatching motion, one of the bars of the gate having a projecting end located in and movable in the socket, a vertical end bar on the gate adapted to engage the end bar of the crane and limit the unlatching movement of the gate, and latching means 0n the ree'end of,

the gate to 'engage a post for locking thel30 gate.

. In testimony whereof I ailiX my signature.

GEORGE A. GILL.

ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

